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Advantages and curiosities of left-handedness in childhood 1. The percentage of left-handed people remains virtually unchanged since Prehistory. 2. Left-handed children have advantages in certain sports such as football or tennis compared to right-handed players. In addition, studies reveal that they tend to be more athletic and have better spatial vision, so lefties abound in elite sports. 3. A study by Peabody College stated that left-handed children tend to be earlier in mathematics and have early language development. 4. Left-handed is more common in boys (11%) than in girls (9%) without determining the causes. 5. Studies show that left-handers handle their emotions worse, the areas of the cerebral cortex that process negative emotions such as anger or hostility, have more activity. 6. There is a high incidence of left-handedness in twin children, in which one of them is, but it is very rare to find cases in which both are left-handed. 7. Most left-handed children tend to draw dolls, figures or people who look to the right. 8. In most countries the percentage of left-handed people is 10%, except in Japan, where only 2%. 9. The right hemisphere of the brain, is the one that rules over the left side and works on creativity, ideas or imagination, so it tends to say that lefties are children with great artistic temperament. 10. The researchers found that the connections between the left side of the brain and the right are made faster in left-handed people, this indicates that they are more agile mentally and think faster. # center of learning genesis # left-handed children